I've been using JIRA for few months -we are following traditional development methods (no agile/scrum). One of the things that I cannot decide, is when should we create separate projects in JIRA, and ...

I've recently started to work on an old project, that was originally written by two professors with no programming experience. Those professors left the project before they have finished it. Meaning ...

We’re a team of a few programmers working on different projects, enhancing current features adding new features and of course fixing bugs as they come to our attention.
Problem is that we need a way ...

I know the best four naive ways of achieving this.
Commit count: In the code repository count the number of commits done by a user. However this is just what the name says, counting the commits. It ...

I am building a Project Management application with PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL . Here are some notes related to my question which is about how to implement a Subscription model for users to subscribe ...

I'm a software developer. There is a team of testers who follow and run test cases written by the analyst, but also perform exploratory testing. It seems like the testers have been competing to see ...

I am a Java Programmer and I am relatively new to Java(1 Year). I am working for a small startup company.
My problem is a bit strange and I am facing it a bit difficult to deal with and explain also.
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When discussing a general and abstract project idea I often use the terms frontend and backend for GUI and well.. backend.
Often however, some people misunderstand frontend as the part of GUI used by ...

If someone opens an issue on GitHub but more information to reproduce the error is asked and never given, what's the normal procedure? Example.
Here the author states that the "nav breaks". While I ...

I am building a website but I am wondering can I call the initial set of pages a framework?
Say I have a project to build a website for a school. Before I start implementing the requirements I have ...

We are not given trust and our bosses don't understand how complicated is our project and tasks given to us and why we are unable to estimated and foresee all the relations between our subsystems and ...

I know the subject sounds very negative but that is the impression i'm getting in my current job.
A deadline has been barked down from the top with no consideration for planning or estimation, team ...

In this blog post, the author describes an anti-pattern called the "lava flow"
In a nutshell, the lava flow anti-pattern happens when many programmers lead the development of an application, each of ...

Help me understand the need for managers, product managers, program managers, design architects, engineering directors, and all other auxiliary job titles that surround software development but don't ...

How do you handle a user story when it depends on horizontal integrations in an application?
An example would be a user story such as, "I would like to have audio help on the start screen." Let's say ...

I work in a small company, where I used to be the only developer. We recently welcomed a few other people on the team, and started thinking about how to organize development efforts.
I am pretty much ...

Let's say I have an idea for the application that I'd like to develop. This application can be used for my startup business or it can just be something I'd like to provide to the world for free. Also, ...

Every VCS that I've seen includes a means (and sometimes requires you) to make a log of what a particular commit does. If this history is being properly kept, what is the purpose of manually keeping ...

There are very complex open source projects out there, and to some of them I think I could make some contributions, and I wish I could, but the barrier to entry is too high for a single reason: for ...

Sometimes I have clients that from start gives you huge flow of words about "how task should be done in details", like "you must use SQL Server here", "should do this in do-while-loop", "should make ...

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The product I'm working on, version-controlled with git, is a desktop application with an innately exposed ...